This book of twelve original essays will bring together two themes of American culture: law and race. The essays fall into four groups: cases that are essential to the history of race in America; cases that illustrate the treatment of race in American history; cases of great fame that became the trials of the century of their time; and cases that made important law. Some of the cases discussed include Amistad, Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson, Scottsboro, Korematsu v. US, Brown v. Board, Loving v. Virginia, Regents v. Bakke, and OJ Simpson. All illustrate how race often determined the outcome of trials, and how trials that confront issues of racism provide a unique lens on American cultural history. Cases include African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Caucasians. Contributors include a mix of junior and senior scholars in law schools and history departments.
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"Race on Trial succeeds in its limited aim of bringing essays on an important historical topic to the attention of general readers."--HISTORY
"Together, the twelve cases in Race On Trial cover a long span of US legal history, and the authors provide fascinating biographies of the litigants behind the court cases. Overall, Gordon-Reed has compiled a fascinating collections by impressive scholars on important racially-oriented trials."-- Law and Politics Book Review
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Annette Gordon-Reed is at New York Law School.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's March 1841 decision to free the black captives of the Amistad marks the only instance in history in which captured Africans brought to New World won their freedom and returned to their homeland. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, Dred Scott, New York, Jack Johnson, African Americans, Los Angeles, Japanese Americans, Board of Education, Chicago Defender, Takuji Yamashita, Irene Emerson, New Orleans, Separate Car Act, Fort Snelling, World War, Missouri Compromise, They Have No Rights, West Coast, Jim Crow, Robert Newsom, Roy Wright, Eugene Williams, Mildred Loving, Allan Bakke, Judge Hawkins New!
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The U.S. Supreme Court's March 1841 decision to free the black captives of the Amistad marks the only instance in history in which captured Africans brought to New World won their freedom and returned to their homeland. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, Dred Scott, New York, Jack Johnson, African Americans, Los Angeles, Japanese Americans, Board of Education, Chicago Defender, Takuji Yamashita, Irene Emerson, New Orleans, Separate Car Act, Fort Snelling, World War, Missouri Compromise, They Have No Rights, West Coast, Jim Crow, Robert Newsom, Roy Wright, Eugene Williams, Mildred Loving, Allan Bakke, Judge Hawkins New!
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- They Have No Rights by Walter Ehrlich on 4 pages
- Japanese Americans, from Relocation to Redress by Roger Daniels on page 154, page 156, and page 157
- Celia, A Slave by Melton A. Mclaurin on page 47, page 58, and page 232
- Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy by Howard Jones in Front Matter, page 24, and page 232
- New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States by Joel Williamson on page 98, and Back Matter
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